Media That Set Us Free

Issue
33Spring2005

If we are to have the public conversations essential to taking on serious dilemmas from climate change to criminal justice reform, we need forums for those conversations. Media can facilitate the conversations or shut them down, open up or constrain our beliefs about what is possible and desirable. Spring 2005.

When the Federal Communications Commission laid out plans to allow yet more corporate consolidation of the media, a grassroots movement emerged that crossed partisan lines, colors, and classes—Americans stood up together to say no